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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 54: Overview
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Meaning in context
To purify us, you whose heart belongs to Paśupati—
with compassionate eyes glowing red, white, and dark—
bring Śoṇa, Gaṅgā, and the sun’s daughter Yamunā together.
You create the stainless meeting of these three sacred waters.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 54
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
to purify us
O you whose heart belongs to Paśupati
with eyes befriending compassion; shining red, white, and dark
the river Śoṇa, Gaṅgā, and the sun’s daughter [Yamunā]
surely this [confluence]
of three sacred waters; you bring about
the stainless meeting
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Śloka 54: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
to purify
compassion
with the eyes
red
white
dark
river
of three
of sacred waters
About these phrase meanings
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03 / SIMPLE MEANINGShownHidden
A first understanding.
Her compassionate eyes, red, white, and dark, bring together the rivers Śoṇa, Gaṅgā, and Yamunā as though creating a sacred confluence to purify the devotee.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The red, white and dark colours are now related to Śoṇa, Gaṅgā and Yamunā. The same visible details used for the guṇas in the preceding verse support a different, river-based comparison here.
Their meeting becomes a sacred confluence brought about through compassionate eyes for the speaker's purification. The intimate act of being seen is thus given the scale and meaning of a pilgrimage place. The comparison changes the relation to the colours without replacing them.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
What makes a place—or a moment of encounter—feel renewing to you?